Bringing Best Friends Together Since 1992!

The Heart of America Humane Society is a 100% volunteer organization working to find good homes for animals. We do not have a shelter of our own but we have created a cooperative partnership with the Lee's Summit Municipal Animal Shelter in Lee's Summit MO.
Without a facility or paid staff, Heart of America Humane Society relies on its all-volunteer network of caring individuals to carry out its mission.

At the Heart of America Humane Society, volunteers are our greatest asset. Without our volunteers, it would be impossible to give each animal the exercise, training and socialization it really needs to become someone’s new pet.

How is HAHS different?

Many of our animals are cared for temporarily in volunteer foster homes.
This gives us the ability to build a history with them, observing and evaluating their behavior and traits outside of an intimidating shelter environment. That foster knowledge helps create a better match between an animal's personality and the home situation of a new owner. Animals available for adoption can be can be viewed on our website or can be met in person at our Saturday Adoption Events.

Dear HAHS, Thank you so much for finding us such a fun home! Our new names are Jake & Elwood and we just love living with the Lyons family. There’s a 5 1/2 year old girl who is just so nice to us. She feeds us every day when she …

Hi Judy 🙂 We’ve called her Twiglet, and she’s doing just fine! She’s a total snuggle-bug and, after a few days, she and our existing cat, Rolo, seem to have taken to each other really well. She’s been to our vet. for a health check, and is due to go …

Hi, my name is Boomer and I have been in my new home for two months as of yesterday. It’s great. I live with Grandma and Grandpa, my new furry four legged brother Mike and my other two leg brother Chris. Mike is a lot older than I am and …

Corissa is a sweet Lab girl, and a favorite of the shelter staff, but the poor thing had three strikes against her. First, she’s a black dog, and black dogs have a much harder time getting adopted for various reasons, whether it’s superstition, prejudice, or simply that they don’t photograph …

Mark, Sorry it’s been such a long time but I have some recent photos of Nina (now Lola). Please share with everyone that may have worked with her. She is simply amazing and I couldn’t be happier with her. We have had some fun outings together and she has put …

Malissa, We adopted “Winkin” in 2005 and you were his foster mom. We named him Hunter and he is a purrfect cat, even though he is mischievous and constantly trying to get attention! We have also adopted a second dog and they all play and nap together. If you remember …

Andrea, I wanted to send you some photos of Charlie and an update. It’s fun to compare these pictures to the ones when he was younger. His eyes are still the same: loving. As you can see from the photos, he’s getting really big! He weighs about 30 pounds now. …

My fiancé Mike and I adopted Sugar in October 2008. We had been talking about getting a dog for a couple of months and searched Petfinder regularly to try and find our perfect match. I saw Sugar and immediately emailed Candy to see if we could meet her. We met …

Hi Raschelle, I just ran across this picture the other day and thought I would send it to you and give you a little update on how she is doing. I think this was taken in July or August, the pink harness doesn’t fit her very well anymore since we …

Hi Julia, Just wanted to give you an update on Abner. He is doing really well, and is fitting in quite nicely. He now weighs 53 lbs, which the vet said is is ideal weight. When he’s not able to go for a walk, his favorite activity is sleeping. His …